Anatomic Pathology Clerkship

Catalog description

This is a twelve-month practical course sequence that forms the curriculum of the second year of the Pathologists' Assistant program. Students rotate through various clinical sites and perform the duties of a Pathologists' Assistant under the guidance of a preceptor. Emphasis is placed on developing the student's skills of gross tissue description, dissection, and frozen section preparation in surgical pathology. Emphasis is placed on autopsy techniques including evisceration and block dissection in autopsy pathology.